The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1887-08-17
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WEDNESDAY, AUG. II, 1887.
KORALA NOTES.


favorable for planting, with less
than average rain.
Nearly all the mills intend to shut
down for about four months, and a
considerable number of hands will
be thrown out of employment.
That our local yield will fall from
five to ten per cent less than our es-
innate, is now pretty certain.
To-day, at noon, we are to have
a political mass meeting at Halawa,
where aspirants for the office of re-
representatives. are expected to do q
preliminary canter. As all the mill
and field hands are off work the
whole day, we may expect quite a
field day.
The curtailed allowance of 500
has not apparently caused a dearth
of candidates, for rumor says we
have four in the field, Messrs. John
Mcguire, Kekipi, Kahookano, and
his son Kalua. Mr.. Wright of Ko-
hala Plantation has resigned, in
favor of John Mcguire. This, many
regret, as Mr.. Wright has as honor
able a record in this district as any
man could wish, and in point of in
tellectual fitness in head and
shoulders above any other candidate
at present offering. John Mcguire
who is certain to be elected, is
known as an upright man. Like Mr..
Wright, he is a half-white, and like
him also has gained position
through integrity and intelligence.
John Mcguire is the manager OF
Puuhue Ranch, is interested in
plantation properties, and is sure OF
the support of the planting interests
generally, and will, ! believe, vote
for the general good.
Kekipi, who is native, was once
well to do planter, but want of
business tact and not extravaganza
living, transferred his acres to the
mill owners. He was once Police
Judge, but lost his position through
the conviction of a well known
Britisher for grog selling, who alleg-
ing that the native police brntally
ill-treated him in prison and destroy
ed his property, brought a man-of-
war to Mahukona, and the official
victim was Kekipi.
If Kekipi runs, he has the native
gift of oratory, added to an exem-
| plary home life and q commanding
presence.
Of our 6 Mobiles, rumor mentions
j. Kauhane, c. Motley, j. 2. Par
ker, and DR.. Wight, and if we in
Kohala ought to name too, Kekipi.
The Portuguese are, OF course,
expected to be an important factor
in counteracting any retrograde
native movement to go back to the
old order of things, of which by the
bye, there need be little fear. The
natives have taken in the situation
and are satisfied with it.
None of the Inspectors of Elec
ton could get a Portuguese to at
tach his name, or take any stock ii
the promise of bright things which
the new Constitution had in store
for them. They were spoken Il
singly and in groups, but they were
suspicious. Some said the natives
had told them that it meant reduc
ton of wages, and that they coulc
not leave the country, all of whicl
showed that the natives are acute anC
jealous. There are now, however
PIP of them enrolled, out of a pos
sible 220 in the district. The credi
of the work is due to Mr.. p. A
Dias, our esteemed store-keeper
(wbo is giving up business).
He is the only man in the dis
trict who, as Portuguese, is goo(
English scholar, and could expa
tiate upon the contrast between thu
oligarchsridden legislature of Portu
gal and the genius of the most mo
dern of Anglo-Saxon Constitution
] think the expenses of Mr.. Dias
time and using up two horses TO
the past weeks and weeks to come
must be paid for, if not by the ex
ecutive, by those here who begge'
him to do the work.
NBut what about the promise mad
to us by the Hawaiian agents at on
island that we would have an oppoI
tunity to acquire bit of land t
settle on?" The answer could no'
be given satisfactorily, and the tai
on this point indicated that on y th
hope of land would keep them here
and surely they are the only hop
of realisng the national cry, ''repler
ish the people,
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